Word: pit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening article by D. J. Golden, not even quotations from Gray, Coleridge, or Shelley warrant the almost two columns of space. Limpert characterizes his own "Something for the Pit" with his phrase ". . . a symphony of boredom . . ." J. F. Fletcher's "Imogene and the Parrot" is well-written, but no more, and the attempt at high-pressure humor in "A Message to Ganglia" is sadly unsuccessful...
These is little more to Quadrille. The wrong couples rightly get together at the end and depart for the railroad as a string quintet in the pit breaks into action...
There is only one recorded incident of a steam car boiler exploding. This occurred at a testing pit of the Stanley Steam Car Co. when a boiler was tested to destruction under conditions impossible in an automobile. I heard of one other incident, during the '20s however, I don't think it should count, as the boiler was being used as a still at the time...
...heard the last of Nye. He was free now, and eager to thump his tub at mill gates, dockyards, and pit heads, trying to woo the workers from their leaders. "Bevan may be dead" said one Laborite,"but he won't lie down...
...last year Esso Standard Oil has spent about $500,000 making an oil storage tank out of a vacant quarry at Wind Gap, Pa. Last week Esso pumped the first oil from its Linden, N.J. Bayway Refinery 65 miles through a 6-in. pipeline into the huge pit, capable of holding about 1,000,000 bbls. of heating...